Proxim Redefines the Price/Performance Ratio of High-Performance Enterprise Wireless Networks

SAN JOSE, CA, Jun 10, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Proxim Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXM), a leader in core-to-client solutions for broadband wireless networks, today announced that it has reduced the price of its ORiNOCO(R) AP 700 access point radios by $100, bringing the new MSRP to just $349. Proxim has also reduced the list price of its ORiNOCO Wi-Fi clients, which now range from $55-75. With this price reduction, Proxim again redefines the price/performance ratio of high-performance wireless networks.

"At Proxim, all we do is wireless -- and our end-to-end product portfolio covers everything from enterprise WLANs to high-performance wireless backhaul, and everything in between," said Pankaj Manglik, CEO of Proxim. "With this price reduction, we aim to make affordable, high performance Wireless LAN available to everyone."

IT products distributor Tech Data Corporation Vice President, Networking Product Marketing Chuck Bartlett said, "Through Tech Data's Wireless Specialized Business Unit, our dedicated team of experts provide Proxim resellers with a broad array of sales, technical and marketing support. Tech Data helps resellers cost-effectively capitalize on the demand for the latest wireless networks, and Proxim's lower costs will enable them to be even more competitive as they deliver these solutions to businesses, government agencies and other end users nationwide."

More than 1 Million ORiNOCO access points have been sold globally and the 4th generation ORiNOCO AP 700 offers enterprises, governments and organizations of all size the following benefits:

-- High Performance -- Integrated QoS for latency-sensitive applications, support for multiple VLANs, and sophisticated hotspot interfaces with Radius integration -- Security -- AES encryption, rogue AP detection, and secure management interfaces via SNMPv3, SSL and SSH -- Ease of Use -- Automatic channel selection, adjustable transmit power; group configuration, remote management and much more with ProximVision, Proxim's network management system

The reduced list prices for the ORiNOCO AP 700 radios and ORiNOCO Wi-Fi clients are as follows:

-- ORiNOCO AP 700 - $349 -- ORiNOCO 8470 series PC Card - $55 -- ORiNOCO 8480 series PC Card - $65 -- ORiNOCO 8482 series PCI Cardbus - $75 -- ORiNOCO 8474 series USB Adapter - $55

This reduced pricing is effective as of June 1, 2008.